Aldous Harding releases a second single from her forthcoming fifth studio album, Train On The Island (out 8 May). Premiered by Lauren Laverne on her BBC 6Music show, ‘Venus In The Zinnia’ finds the New Zealander aided by H. Hawkline on bass, guitar and vocals, plus John Parish on drums, Wurlitzer piano and percussion. Adding to the impressive oeuvre of Aldous Harding visuals, the song’s companion video stars Harding and H. Hawkline, watch...
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My New Band Believe (the new band from former black midi bassist and sometime frontman Cameron Picton) today share their boundary pushing debut studio album, and live video from new non-album track ‘Kick Me’ as they take the same daring approach to live performance. ‘Kick Me’, a new live recording stitched together from the multitracks of 7 different performances, starting in London then flying to New York City and back in the space of...
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David Byrne appeared on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert this week with his 12-member ensemble to perform ‘When We Are Singing’, a track from his new album Who Is The Sky?, out now. Watch the performance HERE. Following the performance, Byrne joined Colbert for an in-depth conversation. Watch HERE. Byrne’s Who Is The Sky? North American spring tour is set to begin on April 4 in Vancouver. Who Is...
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Five-piece 1000 Rabbits (FKA Rabbitfoot) return with their second single ‘Rubik’s Cube’, the exhilarating follow-up to their debut ‘Virgin Soil’. Continuing to build momentum through their electrifying live shows, the track captures the band’s instinctive and playful energy, leaning into a more explosive side of their sound. Watch the accompanying visual here. 1000 Rabbits is an off-kilter art-pop picnic who tell stories through human sounds, both intimate and extroverted. Comprising...
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Generational pop icon Robyn today releases her acclaimed new album Sexistential. Her first album in eight years and the most ecstatic record that she’s ever made: the sound of one of contemporary music’s most influential artists coming home. After the club music meditations of 2018’s Honey, the album features nine, deeply playful pop songs that tie back to her era-defining Body Talk trilogy, designed to feel “like a spaceship coming through the atmosphere at...
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Out today, ‘Ultra Violence’ / ‘Appetite’ is the new maxi-single from Chicago trio Lifeguard. Recorded at the band’s rehearsal space / studio, the music continues the unstable ethos of this year’s much-loved debut album Ripped and Torn – alternating high-velocity punk-energies with surreal dub-inflected interludes. Lifeguard on ‘Ultra Violence’ / ‘Appetite’: Recorded in Lifeguard’s Stulogulo, newly equipped with actually terrifying faces and friendly heroine carpet, plugged straight into the 8-track machine...
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His Name is Alive, the long-standing ethereal darkwave project of Michigan musician Warren Defever, announces the repressing of the band’s first three records on 4AD – Livonia, Home Is In Your Head, and Mouth By Mouth – available from May 8. Recently reissued in 2024 as part of a quickly sold-out colored vinyl boxset entitled How Ghosts Affect Relationships: 1990-1993, with audio sourced from the original analogue tapes and remastered by Defever himself, each album will now...
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My New Band Believe (the new band from former black midi bassist and sometime frontman Cameron Picton) are happy to share the first track, ‘Love Story’ from the forthcoming album My New Band Believe which arrives on April 10th. ‘Love Story’ is one of the album’s stand-out tracks. The song is, literally, a love story, a couple in their banal element: staying in, going out, cooking, cleaning, dreaming, scheming, until it...
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Meg Remy made her first foray into film last year, collaborating with filmmaker Grace Glowicki to compose the score for her directorial debut, a surreal horror-comedy entitled Dead Lover — which received its world premiere in the Midnight Section at Sundance, and screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, SXSW, International Film Festival Rotterdam, and Gothenburg Film Festival. With the theatrical release of Dead Lover from today (20 March), U.S. Girls shares the glamorous, romantic, and eerie centrepiece of her...
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Romy returns with 3 new remixes of ‘Love Who You Love’, out now. Spanning a variety of genres, Romy’s friends and exceptional DJs take on her queer pop anthem and the results are stunning! With ‘Love Who You Love (HAAi Remix)’, the pair continue to collaborate after they appeared on The Lot radio in NYC earlier in the year where this remix was given its first spin, listen and watch...
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Robyn releases her new single ‘Blow My Mind’, the fourth song from her hotly-anticipated album Sexistential. Produced by Klas Åhlund, it’s a tricked-out redux of ‘Blow My Mind’ from Robyn’s 2002 Don’t Stop The Music album, rewritten in tribute to her three year old son. ”Blow My Mind’ is the one song on the album about my son.” she says. “I was in that early stage when I was with him all the...
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Kim Gordon releases her highly anticipated third solo album PLAY ME. Earlier this week, she shared the title-track to the album along with a video directed by Barney Clay, watch here. The release follows singles ‘DIRTY TECH,’ a track that explores the power struggle between humans and robots, a theme visually complemented by the Moni Haworth-directed video, which features Gordon in an abandoned corporate office. The album’s lead track ‘NOT TODAY’ was accompanied by a short film...
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Anjimile releases his highly anticipated album You’re Free to Go, out today, along with the romantic final single ‘Rust & Wire’, ahead of its release this week. ‘Rust & Wire’ blooms in warm acoustic guitars, synth textures, lush strings, and delicate rhythmic layers; an intimate document of self-expression and emotional resonance. Watch the visualiser here. Anjimile shares, “This is a song about love and lust, blooming in the summertime. It’s about kissing...
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Time for some non-fiction. The human condition: that’s pure ‘FRICTION’. It costs a million dollars just to stay alive. Play it cool, feel the vibe. In his latest offering out today, Friday 13th March, Tiga departs from his signature quick fire hooks, opting for a more relaxed approach as he frames the collective feeling of the tricky times in which we’re all living. “Too much friction, too much tension… I need some of your attention,” proclaims...
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Today, The Sophs release their debut album GOLDSTAR, after sharing the video to new single ‘HOUSE’ earlier in the week, watch here. The group have ridden a wave of notoriety ever since signing to Rough Trade Records on the strength of their demos – which they cold-emailed to labelheads Geoff Travis and Jeannette Lee before they ever even played a show. Following singles ‘GOLDSTAR’, ‘I’M YOUR FIEND’, ‘SWEAT’, ‘DEATH IN THE...
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“From chaos comes harmony”, says Mathieu David Gagnon, composer behind the Flore Laurentienne project, about ‘(À travers les) Chablis’, the new single released today. The piece opens with a free jazz improvisation duet on drums, joined by two harps. From this tumult emerges light, embodied by a string melody, like a refusal to give in to disenchantment. The last piece on the album Volume III, ‘(À travers les) Chablis’, hints...
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